Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 102
मेरोरुत्तरतस्तत्र वर्षं यद्धनुषाकृति । उत्तराः कुरवो लोके प्रख्याता ये यशस्विनि
meroruttaratastatra varṣaṃ yaddhanuṣākṛti | uttarāḥ kuravo loke prakhyātā ye yaśasvini
នៅខាងជើងភ្នំមេរុ មានដែនដីមួយមានរាងដូចធ្នូ។ នៅទីនោះ មានជនឧត្តរកុរុ ដែលល្បីល្បាញក្នុងលោករស់នៅ ឱ ទេវីដ៏មានកិត្តិយស។
Īśvara (Śiva) as narrator
Scene: A narrator points northward beyond Mount Meru to a bow-shaped land where the famed Uttara Kurus dwell; the scene is a mythic map made visible—Meru at center, luminous northern expanse beyond.
FAQs
Sacred geography in the Purāṇas situates moral and mythic events within a cosmic order governed by dharma.
No single tīrtha is named; the verse describes the cosmic region of Uttara Kuru north of Meru.
None; it is a geographic-cosmological description.